Morpheus

Role: dream-spirit · First appears: Fable 97

Life events

Sleep chooses Morpheus to execute Juno’s command.(Fable97)
- With: Sleep
- “These, Sleep, the aged God, passes by, and selects Morpheus alone from all his brothers, to execute the commands of the daughter of Thaumas; and again he both drops his head, sunk in languid drowsiness, and shrinks back within the lofty couch.”
Morpheus appears as Ceyx and reveals that shipwreck killed him.(Fable97 · 📍 Herculean Trachyn)
- With: Ceyx Halcyone
- “Then leaning on the bed, with tears running down his face, he says these words: “My most wretched wife, dost thou recognise thy Ceyx, or are my looks so changed with death? Observe me; thou wilt surely know me: and, instead of thy husband, thou wilt find the ghost of thy husband. Thy prayers, Halcyone, have availed me nothing; I have perished.”

parent: Sleep “But Father {Sleep}, out of the multitude of his thousand sons, raises Morpheus,[53] a {skilful} artist, and an imitator of {any human} shape.”
siblings with Icelos “These, Sleep, the aged {God}, passes by, and selects Morpheus alone from all his brothers, to execute the commands of the daughter of Thaumas;”
siblings with Phantasos “These, Sleep, the aged {God}, passes by, and selects Morpheus alone from all his brothers, to execute the commands of the daughter of Thaumas;”
with Halcyone (Morpheus is sent to Halcyone as a messenger in a dream.) “and command him, under the form of Ceyx who is dead, to send a vision to Halcyone, to relate her real misfortune.”
with Ceyx (Morpheus impersonates Ceyx.) “and, laying aside his wings from off his body, he assumes the form of Ceyx;”

Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.